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by scythe 3y ago
California still lags far behind Florida, a much smaller state, in the acreage of prescribed burns per year. SW Florida is a tropical savanna climate, having a winter fire season. Around 2 million acres per year are burned, and have been si
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by scythe 3y ago
I think the problem is that nobody wants to do a lot of work to make something that will be basically just good enough for hobby projects. There's no money in it, and side projects "for personal fulfillment" tend to avoid the
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by scythe 3y ago
It's a nice argument. But it probably isn't a great way to explain a decline in performance that was larger in math than in reading!
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by scythe 3y ago
I remember one time I was reading patents about almond milk manufacturing. One thing that struck me was the habit of the patent authors to use "bland" as an unapologetically positive descriptor of the taste they were going for. Th
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by scythe 3y ago
Ironically, the one place that desal pumping would be almost free is the Imperial Valley, which is below sea level, though across a roughly 80-meter col (7 km horizontal) from Laguna de Salada. But they have among the oldest Colorado river
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by scythe 3y ago
Producing phosphoric anhydride from phosphoric acid is no mean feat. Some of the literature will even tell you it's impossible, but certain metal metaphosphates will release P4O10 gas at around 1000 C. What does not work is dehydrating
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by scythe 3y ago
Money quote (from the paper): >Here we report an approach using trifluoromethanesulfonic anhydride Turning gold into lead, basically. It's interesting that such a process is possible but Tf2O is made by using, IIRC, phosphorus pen
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>As we’ll see later, there may actually have been two jumps from animals to people at the market. Mixing fact with speculation is never a great sign for an argument. Many people pushing the lab leak theory are doing this, but the people
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Why does nuclear power plant construction cost so much?(progress.institute)
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This theory is better than most, considering that other organizations have used similar tactics to get the benefits of bad behavior while dodging responsibility, such as HomeVestors of America (aka "We Buy Ugly Houses"): https:&#
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>/d/ or something But not /d/, you don't want that implication.
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>Why formate? Can't you get hydrogen from any acid, because that's literally the definition of an acid? Formate releases hydrogen differently: HCOOH >> H2 + CO2 Other acids need an electron donor to produce hydrogen. Form
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This is remarkably hard to follow. The actual technology at play here is bicarbonate-formate redox; as the linked paper states: >It is also clear that more integration between the disciplines of electrochemistry and heterogeneous catalys
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by scythe 3y ago
Narragansett is in New England! It's not exactly craft beer, but the bumper stickers on practically every car in RI tell me its following is pretty devoted. It's generally my beer of choice at bars, too, but I could survive if I h
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by scythe 3y ago
>The only question is which country (or countries) will be first to attempt it, and what will trigger them to act. The capability + motivation factors certainly point to India as the most likely candidate, since they're among the cl
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by scythe 3y ago
The data appear to be a screenshot of this website: https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/ Raspberries to the Tweeters for not properly citing sources. The two grey lines you're talking about are 2016
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by scythe 3y ago
>hydrogen is not a greenhouse gas Well, at least, it's a much less bad one: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2901/7f35d70295af32860db77a...
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>If you include a fuel cell and grid connection at the end of the pipeline, is the capital investment cost still lower? You wouldn't, though. If you are going to convert hydrogen back to electricity, it makes the most sense to do it
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by scythe 3y ago
More descriptively, there was a cascade of revolutions and coups across Europe and Asia in the wake of WWI: Russia (1917), Germany (1918), Turkey (1919), Hungary (1918, 1919), Afghanistan (1919, independence), Egypt (1919, independence 1922
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UCS statement on the establishment of the Space Force and attendant risks of a new arms race (2018): https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/space-based-missile-defense...
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by scythe 3y ago
You're really underestimating the depth of anonymization in medicine. Birth dates are considered PII. Treatment dates are PII. Record numbers are PII. Locations "narrower than a state" are PII. Even ages over 85ish are PII be
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by scythe 3y ago
I assume 350 is simply considered more achievable. It's not easy to remove carbon from the atmosphere, especially when you consider that a lot of it was not even in the biosphere before we pulled it out of rocks.
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Santa Barbara is a small town with a college/tourist/military economy. New York is an outlier by US standards in every sense, but if you've ridden the subway there you know it feels old, even though it's one of the bes
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by scythe 3y ago
It seems like the most likely explanation for this is that it's a "soft layoff"; rather than endure the PR and morale hit of a real layoff, let them quit. Plus, even if remote work is not a within-worker disadvantage versus o
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by scythe 3y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_photovoltaics By absolute quantity: China, US, Japan, Germany, India By proportion of electricity generation: Australia, Spain, Greece, Honduras (?!), Netherlands Seeing the Dutch
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One problem is that currently the mix of solar is low enough that grid storage has to be sold as "backup" or "leveling". Grid storage that is actually used will for obvious reasons have a better cost-benefit ratio. If
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It's nice to have a meta-analysis. I would usually prefer the meta-analysis for an effect size estimate. But I also generally live by the saying "you never see a clear picture of Bigfoot". If a phenomenon of serious interest
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But they do provide a relatively nice variety of nutrients in three high-yield crops while minimizing administrative overhead (one field instead of three). We should not assume that preindustrial farmers had the same priorities that we do.
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>I grew up in late USSR Data is better than anecdotes: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GDP_per_capita_devel... These are data reconstructed by Western economists, not Soviet partisans. Only when the politica
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>like Rust has (Option<T> instead of `err != nil` Didn't they implement generics already? https://go.dev/blog/why-generics It seems like their implementation has enough power to do this in most cases, alt

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